The SMPlayer Project

NVidia provides patches for MPlayer, so compiling MPlayer with these patches is possible, but this technology is still very beta and for only few video cards.

Last edited by WiseLord (2008-11-16 07:37:22)

This would be awesome. In fact, beyond awesome. It'd mean maintaining the VDPAU mplayer patch in your (already) patched mplayer ubuntu packages, but other than that it should be fairly easy to add to smplayer - I think.

Having said that, the VDPAU capable driver is still in beta, so there is no huge rush.

rvm wrote:

I could add that patch to the mplayer packages for ubuntu (if it apply and compile with latest svn), but I won't be able to test myself. I have a nvidia card, but I think it's not in the list of supported cards (FX 5500).

Edit: I'm afraid the patches fail to apply to the latest svn (r27942). Sorry.

Anyway if you really want I could try to make packages for the version these patches have been made for (svn r27408).

Maybe you can prepare for this new funciton and add into smplayer when the Nvidia 180.xx driver is released, it's just a beta now after all. I think it's a revolution about HD video playing in Linux.

rvm wrote:

Anyway if you really want I could try to make packages for the version these patches have been made for (svn r27408).

Don't panic too much about it, but thanks for the offer. I imagine it shouldn't be too long before VDPAU makes it into mainline mplayer anyway - if you just updated your packages then, or when someone puts out a new working patch that is nice and clean, then that would be most appreciated.

If it adds a new video driver it will be listed in the smplayer preferences. But according to what I read I think it's necessary to use a specific video codec too, and that would require to pass an option to mplayer.

I think you can try to add a line like this to Preferences->Advanced->Options for mplayer:

-vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,

That will make mplayer to try to use one of those codecs first, and if none if suitable it will fall back to another one (the "," at the end is important!)

If I play the video with mplayer in terminal window, everything is OK.


$:mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau 1.avi


MPlayer dev-SVN-r27960-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  T3200  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 13)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing 1.avi.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
AVI: ODML: Building ODML index (2 superindexchunks).
VIDEO:  [H264]  1280x720  12bpp  23.976 fps  3999.8 kbps (488.3 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: AVI-Mux GUI 1.17.6, May 28 2006  15:53:35
Name: hotel california
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[VD_FFMPEG] VDPAU accelerated codec.
Selected video codec: [ffh264vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [libdca] DTS decoding with libdca
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [dts] afm: libdca (DTS-libdca)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Stream with high frequencies VQ coding
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: H.264 HIGH VDPAU acceleration)
VDec: using H.264 HIGH VDPAU acceleration as output csp (no 2)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [vdpau] 1280x720 => 1280x720 H.264 HIGH VDPAU acceleration
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: H.264 HIGH VDPAU acceleration)
VDec: using H.264 HIGH VDPAU acceleration as output csp (no 2)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 1280x720 => 1280x720 H.264 HIGH VDPAU acceleration
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
A:   2.8 V:   2.8 A-V: -0.000 ct: -0.000  69/ 69  9%  7%  8.3% 2 0

I can play with this opiton:

/usr/local/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -vc ffh264vdpau -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -vo vdpau -ao alsa, -zoom -nokeepaspect -framedrop -nodr -double -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -monitorpixelaspect 1

no more added or else mplayer will be crashed.

still crash

/usr/local/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -vc ffh264vdpau -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo vdpau -ao alsa -zoom -nokeepaspect -framedrop -nodr -double -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 60817420 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -noass -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -vid 0 -aid 1 -subpos 100 -volume 40 -cache 2000 -ss 6 -osdlevel 0 -nocorrect-pts -vf-add screenshot -slices -channels 2 -af scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 /media/f/我的文档/My Videos/MTV/1.avi

MPlayer dev-SVN-r27960-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  T3200  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 13)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.

Playing /media/f/我的文档/My Videos/MTV/1.avi.

Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   
AVI file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
AVI: ODML: Building ODML index (2 superindexchunks).
VIDEO:  [H264]  1280x720  12bpp  23.976 fps  3999.8 kbps (488.3 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: AVI-Mux GUI 1.17.6, May 28 2006  15:53:35
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=Software
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=AVI-Mux GUI 1.17.6, May 28 2006  15:53:35
Name: hotel california
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME1=Name
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE1=hotel california
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=2
ID_FILENAME=/media/f/我的文档/My Videos/MTV/1.avi
ID_DEMUXER=avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=H264
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=3999800
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1280
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=720
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8193
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=1509744
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=428.97
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Forced video codec: ffh264vdpau
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[VD_FFMPEG] VDPAU accelerated codec.
Selected video codec: [ffh264vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264vdpau
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [libdca] DTS decoding with libdca
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=1536000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [dts] afm: libdca (DTS-libdca)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch floatle (4 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=dts
[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0.
[Mixer] No hardware mixing, inserting volume filter.
Starting playback...
Stream with high frequencies VQ coding
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: H.264 HIGH VDPAU acceleration)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: H.264 HIGH VDPAU acceleration)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Unexpected init_vo error.

Go then to Preferences->General and clear the field for the screenshot directory. This way "-vf-add screenshot" won't be passed to mplayer.

user wrote:

Now it's OK, thank you very much.

hi there,

   can you tell me how did you write the options line?

i use the above trick and smplayer(today's svn) still refuse to work.

in advance options, i wrote:

-vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau, (yes, with the "," end)

and choose vdpau(same choosing xv) as video output.

also in Preferences->General, i clear the field for the screenshot directory.

then play some mp4(h264) file, smplayer still tell me some errors like this:

......
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
......


commandline mplayer works well with vdpau.

user wrote:

you must enable the normal subtitle option (disable the ssa/ass subtitle) in "Subtitle > font and colors"

hyfans wrote:

user wrote:

Now it's OK, thank you very much.

hi there,

   can you tell me how did you write the options line?

i use the above trick and smplayer(today's svn) still refuse to work.

in advance options, i wrote:

-vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau, (yes, with the "," end)

and choose vdpau(same choosing xv) as video output.

also in Preferences->General, i clear the field for the screenshot directory.

then play some mp4(h264) file, smplayer still tell me some errors like this:

......
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
......


commandline mplayer works well with vdpau.

thx, now it works